Spanish System 1 driver Carlos Sainz, now with Ferrari, will race for Williams Racing from 2025, a British staff with which he has signed a brand new contract for the following two years, with the choice to increase it, placing an finish to the rumours of current weeks about his fast future.
“Williams Racing has introduced that Carlos Sainz will full the staff’s driver line-up for the 2025 FIA System One World Championship season and past,” the British staff stated in a press release posted on its web site.
The 29-year-old from Madrid has signed a brand new two-year contract with Williams, from Ferrari, with the choice to increase his hyperlink with the British staff. After the Italian staff introduced Lewis Hamilton, seven-time world champion, as Charles Leclerc’s teammate from 2025, Sainz was compelled to search for a brand new ‘house’ on the grid.
And after being linked with Mercedes or Pink Bull, the Spaniard chooses the Williams challenge to proceed his profession within the ‘Huge Circus’, after 23 podiums and greater than 1,100 factors. As well as, in 2023 he was the one driver to interrupt Pink Bull’s hegemony, and he additionally gained in Australia this 12 months, simply ten days after having appendicitis surgical procedure.
Sainz will race alongside Thailand’s Alex Albon in 2025 and 2026, when System 1 rules change. “I’m very happy to announce that I will likely be becoming a member of Williams Racing from 2025. It’s no secret that this 12 months’s driver market has been exceptionally complicated for quite a few causes and it has taken me a while to announce my determination,” stated the Spaniard.
“Nevertheless, I’m totally assured that Williams is the precise place for me to proceed my journey in F1 and I’m extraordinarily proud to affix such a historic and profitable staff, the place a lot of my childhood heroes drove prior to now and left their mark on our sport,” he defined, earlier than defending that “the final word aim” is to “return Williams to its rightful place, on the entrance of the grid”, a “problem” that he accepts “with enthusiasm and positivity”.
The Madrid native stated he was “satisfied that this staff has all of the substances essential to make historical past once more.” “From January 1, I’ll give my finest to guide Williams ahead. I want to thank James Vowles and the whole Williams Board for his or her belief and willpower. Their stable management and convictions have performed an necessary function in my decision-making,” he stated.
“I really consider that the core of each profitable staff lies in its individuals and its tradition. Williams is synonymous with heritage and pure racing, the foundations of the challenge we have now forward of us are very stable and I’m trying ahead to being a part of it from subsequent 12 months,” he concluded in statements revealed by the staff.
This signing leaves no room for American Logan Sargeant, whom Williams needed to thank for his “onerous work and dedication during the last two years”. He turned the primary American driver to attain factors in 30 years and “has performed a basic function within the improvement of the staff”.
For Williams, the addition of Sainz is “a powerful assertion of intent from each events” by signing “one of the crucial gifted drivers on the grid, with a race-winning pedigree. Carlos not solely brings expertise and efficiency, but in addition a fierce motivation to extract each millisecond from the staff and the automotive,” the assertion concluded.
